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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn comes an action-packed adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where the daughter of a elite samurai disguises herself as a boy in order to take charge of her own destiny. “[A] fun feudal samurai...

Insights & Distinctions takes us on a wonderful journey to the heart of the matter of our lives, to what matters most. It points out what's possible if we step outside of what we know, and recognize and embrace our capacity to bring forth an entirely new possibility for living - not because it is better, but simply because that is what human beings can do. Landmark Forum leaders Nancy Zapolski and Joe DiMaggio push boundaries and bring forth what's possible in being human in this book of essays.

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When failed scholar Yên is sold to Vu Côn, one of the last dragons walking the earth, she expects to be tortured or killed for Vu Côn's amusement. But Vu Côn, it turns out, has a use for Yên: she needs a scholar to tutor her two unruly children. She takes Yên back to her home, a vast, vertiginous palace-prison where every door can lead to death. Vu Côn seems stern and unbending, but as the days pass Yên comes to see her kinder and caring side.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful multigenerational historical novel exploring the love that binds a family across the generations in “one of...

A Is for Alien is award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan’s first collection devoted entirely to her science-fiction work. It includes the critically acclaimed novelette Riding the White Bull, along with seven other tales of a less-than-utopian future. Ranging from the wastelands and mountains of Mars to the streets of a late 21st-century Manhattan, from the moons of Europa and Saturn to an iceless Antarctica, these tales bring Kiernan’s trademark brand of the eco-gothic to bear on what it means to be human and the paths and decisions that may face mankind....

Verbessern Sie Ihr Französisch durch authentische und lebensnahe Geschichten über die Herausforderungen eines Neuanfangs in Frankreich. Dieses Französisch-Hörbuch hilft Ihnen, Ihr Hörverständnis zu verbessern und nützliches Französisch für das tägliche Leben zu lernen.

Sadie Sabatini is settling into her new life in Wilson, Texas. She's making friends and her business, Tesoro, is starting to thrive. But the past is never far behind. When two of her former team members come for a visit, they bring trouble in the form of a mutual enemy set on revenge threatening...

Family ties. Small-town secrets. One unexpected visit unravels a web of corruption, conspiracy—and killer connections that could cost Sadie everything. Sadie Sabatini has traded her life as a modern-day Robin Hood for a quieter existence on the peaceful shores of Wilson, Texas. But peace comes...

A thought-provoking exploration of life's most profound transition Nancy Howard Cobb meets death in the most vital of places—in the lives of everyday people—and in doing so has found a way to make the darkest of subjects more approachable, and the deaths of those she has loved—and death...

From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning. Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a...

New York Times bestselling author Kellerman delivers a riveting collection of 14 crime and mystery short stories--plus four bonus tales--compiled for the first time in one volume. THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS marks the highly anticipated return of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus...

Beautiful, accomplished, and beloved, Ellen Greenberg was a vivacious and affectionate teacher of young children she adored. Always upbeat, she deeply loved her family and friends, and especially her fiancée, Sam Goldberg, with whom she was planning a wedding. In fact, they’d just sent out the save-the-date announcements when, on January 26, 2011, Ellen was found in the kitchen of the luxury apartment she shared with Sam, a knife still plunged in her chest.

'George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh' OBSERVER 'Smart, jarring and wickedly funny' GUARDIAN 'The excavation of heterosexual desire our age deserves' LITHUB 'Imagine Vladimir Nabokov as a manic pixie dream girl, and you’ll be halfway there' GQ 'Top of our reading pile' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE...

Disney Princesses, Barbies, Instagram, Cellphones, Netflix, Facebook, and much, much worse. The World will use all of these compelling tools to get the kind of young girls they want: social media addicted, starved for love and attention, guilty, and eventually childless. But Christians have not always provided clear vision for femininity either. Is butter-churning on the prairie faithfulness?

A Prayer in Progress is about parenthood, sobriety, mental illness, aging, family, friendship and faith. With raw honesty and humor, Nancy inspires hope in the face of challenges and unpredictability, and she shares the power of prayer and community as continuous sources of strength.

For a struggling actress in Los Angeles, marrying Big Keith Van Buren—a wealthy, famous food critic with impeccable taste—seems like the role of a lifetime. But when she discovers she is wife number four, and the first three Mrs. Van Burens all met suspiciously “accidental” deaths, dinner becomes a dangerous game. To survive a husband with a deadly appetite, she’ll have to cook up a plan of her own—before she becomes the next course.

Childhood at the Northern Shore Book 1 of the Northern Shore Trilogy. One shore. One childhood. And questions no one ever answered. She was eleven when her mother didn't come home. No goodbye. No reason. Just a silence that split her world in two. In West Berlin, between concrete and water a...

As rare as 1 in 50,000—Michaela Mulroe defied the odds: the odds of systemic expectations designed by those who never had to live by them. Born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a cranio-facial disorder that affected her hearing, speech, and appearance, doctors predicted Michaela would live for only eight days as she struggled to breathe on her own. But she persisted, navigating the early reliance on a feeding tube and a trach alongside her younger brother, who was also born with Treacher Collins Syndrome.

SULUAN is a poetic survival drama and coming-of-age story infused with spiritual realism and grace, set against the lush islands of the Philippines in 1937. Recently awarded the CHRISTLIT BOOK AWARD, SULUAN tells the true tale of Antonia who was born and raised on Suluan—the furthest Philippine island in the eastern Pacific waters. In the summer of 1937, 15-year old Antonia sailed with fourteen young friends to Guiuan, Samar for an upcoming wedding.